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January 2015

The Livingston Food Resource Center held its grand opening in Livingston on Friday.

Formerly known as the Food Pantry, this brand-new facility located at 202 S. Second St., is bringing a food revolution to Livingston and Park County. While still devoting a good part of its efforts to providing food for families in need, the LFRC is also designed to go beyond that and be, as its name says, a food resource center.

As a 20-year-plus veteran plowing snow for the state, though I do not speak for the Montana Department of Transportation, I have learned that blowing snow always fills in the low spots first. Near the proposed underpass site, there are drifting problems now. The underpass will require lowering old Highway 10, which may make the problem worse.

On the other hand, the overpass will require the road to be raised, and that would help reduce the drifting problem in that area.

Medicaid expansion is a part of the Affordable Care Act that would enable 70,000 Montanans to have health insurance. These people are low-income adults, veterans, single parents and American Indians. In other words, they are a broad cross section of Montanans deserving of decent health care.

As a longtime past resident of Livingston for several generations now, with family still there, I ask the city to consider an overpass rather than an underpass as on B Street, as the only viable option.

I remember driving the treacherous underpass, gripping the wheel on snow and ice, let alone when it rained and the underpass would fill with water. Safety has got to be the utmost concern.

Brent Forrest Indreland, 18, of both Livingston and Bozeman, passed away on Thursday, Jan. 15, 2015, at Bozeman Deaconess Hospital of natural causes. A remembrance gathering will take place at 1 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 24, 2015, at the American Legion in Livingston, 112 N. B St.

Brent was born in Billings on March 18, 1996. He resided with his family in Harlowton for the first three years of his life, then moved to Livingston, where his family currently resides.